@alda This is a really good question. It’s going to depend on the project but I think for many CSS and JS files minification+gzip is going to only have minor savings over just gzip and a barely measurable performance impact.
The difference might get even less with brotli.
Would be very interested in seeing somebody test this properly with realistic test cases.
@baldur @alda All the cases I've seen over the years (a couple of folks have tested this) suggested that there is a small additional amount of savings, but it's small enough that it seems highly likely that minification is more often used as an obfuscation and/or "everybody does it" thing, and bandwidth savings are just a surface reason
(Especially considering that those same sites then often proceed to load megabytes of third-party junk and don't even bother optimizing their image compression)
